Joshua 21:36
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New International Version (©2011)
from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer, Jahaz,

New Living Translation (©2007)
From the tribe of Reuben they received the following towns with their pasturelands: Bezer, Jahaz,

English Standard Version (©2001)
and out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its pasturelands, Jahaz with its pasturelands,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
From the tribe of Reuben, they gave Bezer with its pasture lands and Jahaz with its pasture lands,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs,

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
From the tribe of Reuben they gave: Bezer with its pasturelands, Jahzah with its pasturelands,

International Standard Version (©2012)
From the tribe of Reuben were allocated Bezer with its pasture lands, Jahaz with its pasture lands,

NET Bible (©2006)
from the tribe of Reuben: Bezer, Jahaz,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The tribe of Reuben also gave them four cities with pasturelands: Bezer, Jahaz,

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its pasture lands, and Jahaz with its pasture lands,

American King James Version
And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs,

American Standard Version
And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its suburbs, and Jahaz with its suburbs,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Of the tribe of Ruben beyond the Jordan over against Jericho, Bosor in the wilderness, one of the cities of refuge, Miser and Jaser

Darby Bible Translation
and out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and its suburbs, and Jahzah and its suburbs,

English Revised Version
And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahaz with her suburbs,

Webster's Bible Translation
And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its suburbs, and Jahazah with its suburbs,

World English Bible
Out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its suburbs, Jahaz with its suburbs,

Young's Literal Translation
And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and its suburbs, and Jahazah and its suburbs,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

21:9-42 By mixing the Levites with the other tribes, they were made to see that the eyes of all Israel were upon them, and therefore it was their concern to walk so that their ministry might not be blamed. Every tribe had its share of Levites' cities. Thus did God graciously provide for keeping up religion among them, and that they might have the word in all parts of the land. Yet, blessed be God, we have the gospel more diffused amongst us.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 36. - And out of the tribe of Reuben. This verse and the succeeding have the Masoretic note appended that they are not found in the Masora or true tradition. Kimchi therefore rejects them. But they are found in the LXX. and the rest of the ancient versions, and they are necessary to make up the number of forty-eight cities. Dr. Kennicott, as well as Michaelis, Rosenmuller, and Maurer defended their genuineness. So does Knobel, who complains that Rabbi Jacob Ben Chajim, in his Rabbinical Bible of 1525, has very improperly omitted these towns on the authority of the Masora, and that many editors have foolishly imitated him They have no doubt been omitted by the mistake of a copyist, who passed on from the אַרְבָע (four) of ver. 35 to that of ver. 37, omitting all that lay between. The LXX. adds here "the city of refuge for the slayer," words which may have possibly formed part of the original text, as they do in every other instance. Jahazah. It is worthy of remark that this city, with Heshbon and Jazer and Mephaath, fell into the hands of the Moabites in later times, a sad indication of religious declension (see Isaiah 15, 16; Jeremiah 48:21, 34).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs,.... Which was a city of refuge, and the fifth of them in this account, though not observed as such here, but is in the Greek version; see Joshua 20:8,

and Jahazah with her suburbs; called Jahaz; see Gill on Numbers 21:23.

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Forty-Eight Cities of the Levites
…35Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs; four cities. 36And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs, 37Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities. …

Deuteronomy 4:43 The cities were these: Bezer in the wilderness plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.
Joshua 20:8 East of the Jordan (on the other side from Jericho) they designated Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau in the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead in the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan in the tribe of Manasseh.
Joshua 21:35 Dimnah and Nahalal, together with their pasturelands--four towns;
Joshua 21:37 Kedemoth and Mephaath, together with their pasturelands--four towns;